!!! oh hell yes, thank you!!
congratulations on starting, that's so wonderful to hear! It's been 3 years for me now and it's been life-changing. I wish you all of that joy and more. <3
eee thank you! ❤️ I’m so glad this one is reaching people, it’s the most personal thing I’ve ever published
aaah thank you for reading! ❤️
aah thank you for reading!! also: while I wrote Spindle before reading Idlewild, I do love it and have taught it and this essay in a class on trans historicism!!
two particularly cool recent things: the Wisconsin Library Association gave DL an Outstanding Achievement Award, in some extraordinarily humbling company (Lauren Groff jfc)
<3 <3 thank you!! that means the world to hear.
here's the story! it's about a trans guy who dream-meets a beloved author he thinks was trans too, & about what books and history can (& can't) do for us. this one's very special to me -- if you read one thing from me this year, please read this. strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-...
Andrew was convinced the writer had been trans. By this point his friends were tired of hearing about it, but he had no one else to tell besides the internet, and he was too smart for that. That wo…
He does say just that—genre fiction doesn’t broadly share this problem and he is speaking specifically to literary realist fiction; hence Zola and Wharton as his interlocutors.